Quavo and Offset have both reflected on their bond with TakeOff a year after he was tragically shot and killed at the age of 28.
Wednesday (November 1) marked the first anniversary of the Atlanta rappers untimely passing. In addition to the larger Hip Hop community mourning the tragic death, the two remaining Migos group members expressed their love for TakeOff.
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Quavo shared a black-and-white image of his nephew on Instagram and captioned it: “Can’t forget it won’t Forget It NEVER Forget it [rocket emoji, infinity emoji] I Remember!”
Offset, also on IG, posted a video commemorating his friend’s legacy, writing: “The times we spent is priceless what we built in this game they never wanted to give us our flowers we influenced the world…I Love you Take you still here with us I just know you are!!!! Migo 4Life!!!!!!”
In 2022, police revealed that the deadly shootout occurred after a “lucrative” dice game outside 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, Texas turned violent. TakeOff is believed to have been an innocent bystander when things turned sour.
The Georgia native’s alleged killer continues to maintain his innocence, with his legal team insisting that he was as much at risk as the late rapper.
In late October, Patrick Xavier Clark appeared in court to dispute the notion that he is responsible for the murder. He was arrested in December 2022 based on a reconstruction of the incident per video and ballistics evidence, but his lawyers are telling a different story.
“He maintains his innocence,” defense attorney Letitia Quinones-Hollins told Rolling Stone about the incident last year. “We do believe that he has a valid self-defense claim. I don’t think they can say with any degree of certainty that it was Patrick who actually fired the shot that took TakeOff’s life.”
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She added: “There was someone else who started the shooting, it was not Patrick Clark. He was in the same position that TakeOff was in, he was trying to get out of there alive as well. He didn’t have anything to do with the argument that occurred. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when people started firing weapons.”
With Clark’s next court date scheduled for early next year, Quinones-Hollins believes that the trial will most likely begin in the second half of 2024.
